Now, if we ask what is the instance for proportioning the concept to the terms or to the subjects of which it is affirmed, it is clear that it is judgment. For judgment has precisely two essential functions, and only two: distribution, which it ensures by the partition of concepts; and hierarchization, which it ensures by the measuring of subjects. To the former corresponds the faculty of judgment known as common sense; to the latter the faculty known as good sense (or first sense). Both constitute just measure or “justice” as a value of judgment…With its common sense and first sense, however, the analogy of judgment allows the identity of a concept to subsist, either in implicit and confused form or in virtual form. Analogy is itself the analogue of identity within judgment. Analogy is the essence of judgment, but the analogy within judgment is the analogy of the identity of concepts.
— Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 33
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